KENT J. DAWSON, District Judge.
Presently before the Court is Defendant Red Rock Financial Services, LLC's Motion to Dismiss the Second and Fifth Causes of Action (#13). Plaintiff filed a response in opposition (#16) to which Defendant replied (#17).
On or about September 22, 2005, Defendant Rosalinda Ramos ("Ramos") obtained a $231,100.00 loan to purchase property located at 9783 Colored Wind, Las Vegas, Nevada ("the property"). The property was secured by a deed of trust that was assigned to Bank of New York Mellon ("Plaintiff" or "BoNYM").
Ramos failed to pay assessed amounts due to Defendant Southern Terrace Homeowners Association ("STHOA"). On December 6, 2010, STHOA, through its agent, Defendant Red Rock Financial Services, LLC ("Red Rock"), recorded a notice of delinquent assessment lien in the amount of $1,529.92. STHOA later recorded a notice of default and election to sell on January 18, 2011 in the amount of $1,964.26. A notice of trustee's sale in the amount of $3,178.11 was recorded on June 9, 2013 and indicated that the sale was scheduled for May 31, 2013.
On or about March 4, 2011, after the notice of default, Miles Bauer Bergstrom & Winters ("Miles Bauer") remitted payment to STHOA through Red Rock to satisfy the super-priority amount. Miles Bauer requested a ledger from STHOA identifying the super-priority amount. STHOA provided a ledger dated February 14, 2011 but refused to identify the super-priority amount. Miles Bauer allegedly calculated the super-priority amount to $630.00 and tendered that amount to STHOA.
On May 31, 2013, STHOA foreclosed on the property and a foreclosure deed was recorded on June 3, 2013. Plaintiff filed the present complaint on April 5, 2017. Defendant Red Rock has now moved to dismiss the Second Cause of Action and the Fifth Cause of Action based on the running of the statute of limitations.
A court may dismiss a complaint for "failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted." Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6). A properly pled complaint must provide "[a] short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief." Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2);
"Factual allegations must be enough to rise above the speculative level."
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Second, the court must consider whether the factual allegations in the complaint allege a plausible claim for relief.
Where the complaint does not permit the court to infer more than the mere possibility of misconduct, the complaint has "alleged-but not shown-that the pleader is entitled to relief."
"In determining whether a statute of limitations has run against an action, the time must be computed from the day the cause of action accrued. A cause of action `accrues' when a suit may be maintained thereon."
The District of Nevada has held that a plaintiff can maintain an action at the time of an HOA foreclosure sale, and the statute of limitations on its claim begins to run on that date.
Here, the HOA foreclosure took place on May 31, 2013, and a foreclosure deed was recorded on June 3, 2013. There are no other allegations pled in the complaint beyond those dates against Red Rock. Therefore, the statute of limitations began to run, at the latest, on June 3, 2013, when the deed was recorded.
Plaintiff alleges violations of Nevada Revised Statute § 116.1113, which states that "[e]very contract or duty governed by this chapter imposes an obligation of good faith in its performance or enforcement." This claim is based "upon a liability created by statute," N.R.S. § 11.190(3)(a). Thus, the three-year statute of limitations applies.
Plaintiff filed this action more than three years after the recordation of the foreclosure deed. Therefore, Plaintiff's claim for violation of § 116.1113 is time-barred, and is dismissed with prejudice.
Plaintiff also alleges deceptive trade practices by Defendant within Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 598. According to Nevada Revised Statutes § 11.190(2)(d)
Plaintiff brought this action within four years of the foreclosure sale and recordation of the foreclosure deed. Therefore, Plaintiff's claim for deceptive trade practices is timely.
Plaintiff, in its opposition, asserts that the statute of limitations should have been tolled because it could not have known of the possible extinguishment of the deed of trust until the Nevada Supreme Court held that an HOA foreclosure sale could extinguish a senior deed of trust.
Accordingly,